Tyrker
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Tyrker (or Tyrkir) is a character mentioned in the Norse Saga of the Greenlanders. He accompanied Leif on his voyage of discovery around the year 1000, and is portrayed as an older male servant. He is referred to as “foster father” by Leif Ericson, which may indicate he was a freed thrall, who once had the responsibility of looking after and rearing the young Leif.
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- Leif Erikson
- date of death
- 1100-01-01
- date of birth
- 0950-00-00
- described by source
- Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography
- Commons category
- Viking Age
- from narrative universe
- Saga of the Greenlanders
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Tyrker (or Tyrkir) is a character mentioned in the Norse Saga of the Greenlanders. He accompanied Leif on his voyage of discovery around the year 1000, and is portrayed as an older male servant. He is referred to as “foster father” by Leif Ericson, which may indicate he was a freed thrall, who once had the responsibility of looking after and rearing the young Leif.
Leif and his company wintered in the New World after building Leifsbudir (Leif’s dwellings), perhaps
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